An interventional study of Dietary Intervention - meal recipes and Informational Intervention in Pediatric, sponsored by Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 2 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-10.
Sponsored by Roswell Park Cancer Institute · Not applicable, Interventional, and Supportive care
This clinical trial tests the feasibility, acceptability and effect of an optimal defaults grocery shopping intervention to promote healthy diets for pediatric cancer survivors and their families. Pediatric cancer survivors are a growing population who are at an increased risk of developing chronic conditions and treatment-related complications. Poor nutritional intake can significantly worsen chronic health conditions experienced by survivors. Children who have poorer nutrition post-treatment are at greater risk for cancer recurrence. Interventions that effectively support families in obtaining and consuming healthier food and improve dietary intake are poised to improve developmental outcomes among pediatric cancer survivors. One promising way to impact the family diet is by targeting food purchasing. Optimal defaults, or making the healthy choice the automatic choice, is a specific nudge strategy that may be a feasible, acceptable and effective way to promote healthier food purchasing and dietary intake among pediatric cancer survivors and their families.
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To test the feasibility and acceptability of an optimal defaults grocery shopping intervention among families with a survivor of pediatric cancer.
II. To test effects of the defaults intervention on the nutritional quality, energy content, and cost of household grocery purchases and children's usual dietary intake, including nutritional quality and energy intake, as well as intake of fat, carbohydrates, protein, and added sugar.
IIa. Examine effects of the intervention on dietary intake of the enrolled parent/guardian
OUTLINE:
Families (cancer survivor and their parent/legal guardian) shop for groceries as normal for 2 weeks, using Instacart for at least 75% of shopping, and provide receipts for this shopping. At the end of Week 2, families meet with study staff to address any grocery shopping questions. Families are then randomized to 1 of 2 groups.
GROUP 1: Families receive 4 recipes per week for 2 weeks while continuing to record their grocery shopping. Recipe packets include 3 main meal recipes as well as an idea of an additional breakfast/lunch/snack that can be made with leftovers from the main meal recipes, nutritional characteristics of the recipes and some simple nutrition education tips. Recipes options can be assigned depending on families' dietary restrictions and food preferences. At the end of Week 4, families meet with study staff to address any grocery shopping questions.
GROUP 2: Families receive 4 recipes per week for 2 weeks, continue to record their grocery shopping, and have their online Instacart grocery carts prefilled with the ingredients needed to make the recipes. Families may make changes to their carts as they like. Recipe packets include 3 main meal recipes as well as an idea of an additional breakfast/lunch/snack that can be made with leftovers from the main meal recipes, nutritional characteristics of the recipes and some simple nutrition education tips. Recipes options can be assigned depending on families' dietary restrictions and food preferences. At the end of Week 4, families meet with study staff to address any grocery shopping questions.
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You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
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Families (cancer survivor and their parent/legal guardian) shop for groceries as normal for 2 weeks, using Instacart for at least 75% of shopping, and provide receipts for this shopping. At the end of Week 2, families meet with study staff to address any grocery shopping questions. Families receive 4 recipes per week for 2 weeks while continuing to record their grocery shopping. Recipe packets include 3 main meal recipes as well as an idea of an additional breakfast/lunch/snack that can be made with leftovers from the main meal recipes, nutritional characteristics of the recipes and some simple nutrition education tips. Recipe options can be assigned depending on families' dietary restrictions and food preferences. At the end of Week 4, families meet with study staff to address any grocery shopping questions.
Other: Dietary Intervention - meal recipes · Other: Informational Intervention · Other: Educational Intervention
Families (cancer survivor and their parent/legal guardian) shop for groceries as normal for 2 weeks, using Instacart for at least 75% of shopping, and provide receipts for this shopping. At the end of Week 2, families meet with study staff to address any grocery shopping questions. Families receive 4 recipes per week for 2 weeks, continue to record their grocery shopping, and have their online Instacart grocery carts prefilled with the ingredients needed to make the recipes. Families may make changes to their carts as they like. Recipe packets include 3 main meal recipes as well as an idea of an additional breakfast/lunch/snack that can be made with leftovers from the main meal recipes, nutritional characteristics of the recipes and some simple nutrition education tips. Recipe options can be assigned depending on families' dietary restrictions and food preferences. At the end of Week 4, families meet with study staff to address any grocery shopping concerns
Other: Dietary Intervention - meal recipes · Other: Educational Intervention · Other: Dietary Intervention - prefilled grocery cart
Receive main meal recipes
Meet with study staff to address any grocery shopping questions
Receive nutrition education tips
Receive prefilled online grocery cart
Retention Rate
Percentage of study cohort who complete the study
Time frame: At 4 weeks
Percentage of Interested families Eligible for study
Feasibility defined as ≥ 50% of interested families being eligible for the study
Time frame: At 4 weeks
Percentage of eligible families enrolling in study
Feasibility defined as ≥ 50% of eligible families enrolling
Time frame: At week 4
Percent of enrolled families completing baseline measures and proceeding to randomization
Feasibility defined as ≥ 90% of enrolled families successfully completing baseline measures and proceeding to randomization
Time frame: At 4 weeks
Percentage of randomized families completing the study
Feasibility defined as ≥ 85% of randomized families completing the study.
Time frame: At 4 weeks
Participant reported interest in continuing to engage in program over a longer period of time.
As reported by participants by Phone call
Time frame: At 4 weeks
Change in household grocery purchases: nutritional quality
Nutritional quality will be calculated based on quintiles for each of 13 indicators that correspond to the Healthy Eating Index: total fruit, whole fruit, total vegetables, dark green and legume vegetables, whole grains, dairy, total protein foods, seafood and plant proteins, the ratio of mono and polyunsaturated fatty acids to saturated fatty acids, refined grains, sodium, added sugars, and saturated fats. Quintile scores will be summed to generate nutritional quality of grocery purchases each week
Time frame: From baseline to end of study - up to 4 weeks
Changes in household grocery purchases: energy content
Total energy content of groceries purchased for the household each week
Time frame: UP to 4 weeks
Start is estimated for Nov 2026; primary completion for Nov 2028, 24 months later.
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